November Neighbors Salon: Collaborative Consumption in the Built Environment

This month we’ll focus on the movement best called Collaborative Consumption. Rachel Botsman, author of the recently published ‘What’s mine is yours: the Rise of Collaborative Consumption,’ describes the phrase as: “the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented in ways relevant to the Facebook age.” How will Collaborative Consumption impact the built environment, and how can designers and planners create projects and spaces that encourage and support this trend?
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